1861. The first action taken by the city, in regard to the war, was the passage of a resolve by the city council on the 18th of April appropriating five thousand dollars to assist the military companies of Springfield in making necessary preparations for entering upon active military service.
On the 29th of the same month twenty thousand dollars were appropriated for the same general purposes.

1862. August 26th, The city government passed the following resolution:—

1Horace C. Lee resigned Oct 21, 1861, to take command of the Twenty-seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and Henry Smith was chosen to serve the balance of the year.
Samuel B. Spooner, Jr., resigned Sept. 30, 1862, to accept the commission of captain of Company A, Forty-sixth Regiment, and Albert F. Folsom was chosen to fill the vacancy, and has remained in office ever since.

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